MegaWhats 2024 – RESULTS & RANKINGS
Here are the results of prelims of MegaWhats 2024, the KQA’s annual inter-city written quiz. The top ten city winners are invited to participate in the MW semifinals on 28 June 2024. The MW face-off will be part of AsKQAnce, KQA’s annual quiz fest.
Qualifiers will be contacted by the KQA to confirm participation at AsKQAnce. Each team is allowed a maximum of one change per team. In case of a city winner dropping out, the next team to qualify will NOT be the second highest scoring team in that city, but the highest scoring team overall that has not qualified.
Our congratulations to QED from Chennai for topping the prelims. The other qualifiers are listed below.
Top ten city winners:
1. QED (Chennai, 53.5 with 10*)
2. Aardvarks (Delhi, 53 with 10*)
3. United Separatists (Mumbai, 50.5 with 9*)
4. CIDs From Kerala (Bangalore, 48.5 with 7*)
5. Feni Vidi Vici (Goa, 46.5 with 6*)
6. Hammer & Tongs (Kolkata, 44.5 with 9*)
7. Zulfiqar-e-Fidel (Pune, 44 with 5*)
8. Triple S with a B (Hyderabad, 42 with 6*)
9. Baibaswata Ritwik Toyada Adarsh (Bhubaneshwar, 38.5 with 7*)
10. KSI (Coimbatore, 37.5 with 6*)
Other qualifiers
1. Dada Kondke & His Lamp (Mumbai, 50 with 8*)
2, Zero Gravitas (Bangalore, 48 with 9*)
3. So Far So Good So Megawhats (Bangalore, 47.5 with 9*)
4. Quizzaholics Anonymous (Chennai, 47.5 with 9*)
5. Insignificant Others (Chennai, 46.5 with 9*)
6. Sainted & Dented (Mumbai, 46 with 9*)
*UPDATED 27 MAY: Coimbatore is the 10th qualifier among city winners, beating out Ahmedabad by a point. Apologies for any confusion.
| # | Team Name | Score | Stars | City |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | QED | 53.5 | 10 | Chennai |
| 2 | Aardvarks | 53 | 10 | Delhi |
| 3 | United Separatists | 50.5 | 9 | Mumbai |
| 4 | Dada Kondke and His Lamp | 50 | 8 | Mumbai |
| 5 | CIDs From Kerala | 48.5 | 7 | Bengaluru |
| 6 | Zero Gravitas | 48 | 9 | Bengaluru |
| 7 | So far, So good, So Megawhats? | 47.5 | 9 | Bengaluru |
| 8 | Quizaholics Anonymous | 47.5 | 9 | Chennai |
| 9 | Insignificant Others | 46.5 | 9 | Chennai |
| 10 | Feni Vidi Vici | 46.5 | 6 | Goa |
| 11 | Sainted and Dented | 46 | 9 | Mumbai |
| 12 | Hammer and Tongs | 44.5 | 9 | Kolkata |
| 13 | Laapataa Ladies | 44.5 | 8 | Delhi |
| 14 | Sreeradh Supratim SGD Jaidev | 44 | 8 | Bengaluru |
| 15 | Zulfiqar-e-Fidel | 44 | 5 | Pune |
| 16 | Congrats All | 43.5 | 8 | Bengaluru |
| 17 | Peter Panchali | 42 | 7 | Bengaluru |
| 18 | Forecasting Couch Potatoes | 42 | 6 | Chennai |
| 19 | Triple S with a B | 42 | 6 | Hyderabad |
| 20 | Rags to Riches | 41 | 10 | Mumbai |
| 21 | SJU Quizzers | 41 | 7 | Bengaluru |
| 22 | Three Men and a Baby | 41 | 4 | Bengaluru |
| 23 | Swami and Friends | 39.5 | 5 | Bengaluru |
| 24 | F & F | 38.5 | 7 | Kolkata |
| 25 | Baibaswata Ritwik Toyada Adarsh | 38.5 | 7 | Bhubaneswar |
| 26 | Carefully Put Together | 38.5 | 5 | Bengaluru |
| 27 | SNM and SHCS | 38 | 7 | Kolkata |
| 28 | Nishant Rahul Maitrey Abhay | 38 | 4 | Bengaluru |
| 29 | Four Everybody Problem | 37.5 | 6 | Mumbai |
| 30 | KSI | 37.5 | 6 | Coimbatore |
| 31 | We Like Our Answers Better | 37 | 5 | Bengaluru |
| 32 | Vijay Char Rosters | 36.5 | 6 | Ahmedabad |
| 33 | Veritas Vin Cit | 36 | 7 | Delhi |
| 34 | Prasanna Goes for DRS | 36 | 6 | Hyderabad |
| 35 | Cute Purple Unicorns | 36 | 5 | Chennai |
| 36 | Thrissur Round-up | 35.5 | 6 | Thrissur |
| 37 | Mimirer Ghoraguli | 35 | 7 | Kolkata |
| 38 | Sreeram Rajat Balu Kishire | 34.5 | 4 | Bengaluru |
| 39 | 3 Cool People and 1 Last Minute Addition | 33.5 | 4 | Bengaluru |
| 40 | True Men Show | 33 | 6 | Hyderabad |
| 41 | Hiptullah Limbfitters | 33 | 6 | Delhi |
| 42 | All Quiet on the Eastern Front | 33 | 5 | Guwahati |
| 43 | Ankita Ayush Kavin Laxya | 33 | 5 | Delhi |
| 44 | Joy East Bengal | 32 | 5 | Kolkata |
| 45 | RCB>>> SRH | 31.5 | 6 | Hyderabad |
| 46 | The Kaun Men | 31.5 | 5 | Goa |
| 47 | Ee Sala Answer Namde | 31.5 | 3 | Bengaluru |
| 48 | Goanese Gang | 30.5 | 5 | Bengaluru |
| 49 | Navneet Akshay Nikhil | 30.5 | 4 | Delhi |
| 50 | Anushilan Samiti | 30 | 6 | Guwahati |
| 51 | Noobs | 30 | 4 | Pune |
| 52 | Team Fubar | 29.5 | 4 | Bengaluru |
| 53 | Paisa Vasool | 29 | 5 | Delhi |
| 54 | Zoha | 29 | 3 | Pune |
| 55 | Ben Stokes | 27 | 4 | Bengaluru |
| 56 | Teamesh Kumar | 26.5 | 6 | Chennai |
| 57 | Say Our Names | 26.5 | 4 | Bengaluru |
| 58 | Waiting for 2 More Teammates | 26 | 3 | Mumbai |
| 59 | Sandipan & Debakanta | 24.5 | 6 | Dhemaji |
| 60 | Kartikeya Panwar (solo) | 24.5 | 4 | Bengaluru |
| 61 | Team With No Name | 24.5 | 4 | Delhi |
| 62 | Khiladis of Kerala | 24.5 | 3 | Thrissur |
| 63 | The Big Bang Theory | 24.5 | 3 | Trivandrum |
| 64 | Megawhys | 24 | 3 | Goa |
| 65 | Sunandita Appu Debabrata Swagat | 23.5 | 4 | Bengaluru |
| 66 | Quizzilaterals | 23.5 | 3 | Bhubaneswar |
| 67 | Strawberry Soda | 23 | 4 | Delhi |
| 68 | -273.15 | 23 | 3 | Coimbatore |
| 69 | Shankar Balaji Ramya Kasturi | 22.5 | 2 | Chennai |
| 70 | Vande Bharat Express | 22 | 3 | Delhi |
| 71 | Aalshi Goenkar | 21.5 | 4 | Goa |
| 72 | Soups | 21 | 4 | Delhi |
| 73 | Sigma Enigmas | 20.5 | 4 | Delhi |
| 74 | Saswati Aditya Mukti | 20.5 | 3 | Bhubaneswar |
| 75 | Four Horses in Search of Three Roads | 20 | 3 | Chennai |
| 76 | SAKK | 18 | 4 | Delhi |
| 77 | SAAR | 18 | 2 | Trivandrum |
| 78 | Killjoys | 16.5 | 3 | Pune |
| 79 | Selatkcud | 16.5 | 2 | Bengaluru |
| 80 | Dhruv Shubhankar Aadi | 15.5 | 3 | Delhi |
| 81 | Chai Biscuit | 15.5 | 1 | Hyderabad |
| 82 | Instant Raman | 15 | 3 | Bengaluru |
| 83 | Four Men Problem | 15 | 2 | Guwahati |
| 84 | The Usual Suspects | 14.5 | 2 | Bengaluru |
| 85 | Himawari | 14 | 2 | Pune |
| 84 | Buggers | 13 | 3 | Pune |
| 86 | Abhijwala Pragnajeet Tapan | 12 | 1 | Bhubaneswar |
| 87 | Mahadev & Amit | 11.5 | 2 | Pune |
| 88 | Sanyog Satyanshu Ananya | 10 | 0 | Bhubaneswar |
| 89 | Shinchan | 9 | 2 | Pune |
| 90 | Aravind Biji Thanseela | 6 | 0 | Trivandrum |
MINDSWEEP and MEGAWHATS on 19 May 2024
The KQA is pleased to announce the return of its annual multi-city written open quizzing championships, Mindsweep and Megawhats.
Both quizzes will be conducted on Sunday, 19th May, 2024 in various cities.
Mindsweep, the international solo quizzing championship, is a written quiz for solo participants that will require takers to answer 200 questions in two back-to-back sessions of 75 min each. The quiz will commence at 10.30 AM IST.
Registration form and further details are at http://kqaquizzes.org/mindsweep/
Megawhats, the national team quizzing championship, is a written quiz for teams of up to four that will commence at 3.30 PM IST. Do note that the top winners of Megawhats will also be invited to take part in the Megawhats National Final on June 28 at AsKQAnce 2024.
Registration form and further details are at http://kqaquizzes.org/megawhats/
Venue details for each city will be notified soon. The venue in Bangalore is IAT, Queen’s Road.
If your location isn’t listed and you would like your city to conduct Mindsweep and Megawhats, or for any clarifications, please write to Hrishi Varma at kqaquizzes@gmail.com The more the merrier, and the only reason your city is not yet on the list is that the organising details have not yet been ironed out with the local quiz club so lean on them and tell them to get their act together
Prior registration is required for both quizzes, so please register at the earliest using the links mentioned above, and do spread the word.
MAHAQUIZZER 2023 – RESULTS & RANKINGS
The results of the 18th edition of MahaQuizzer are below. Nearly 300 people took Mahaquizzer.
Jayakanthan of Chennai has won the title of MahaQuizzer with a score of 112, the highest in the competition’s history. This is his first title. Our congratulations to him.
Two former champions also reached the century score: Vinoo Sanjay (100 (12*), Mumbai), and Rahul Kottalgi (100 (9*), Bengaluru). The highest-scoring woman is 2012 champ Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka, who made 79.
The next four highest scorers in Bengaluru were Thejaswi Udupa (94), Santosh Swaminathan (92), Achyuth Sanjay (88) and Anustup Datta (83).
Due to some unfortunate circumstances, we did not receive the answer sheets from Delhi. They are presented as we received them. We are yet to receive scores from Siliguri and Raiganj. Scores will be updated if we receive them.
The top sixteen players also qualify for Mahamahaquizzer 2024. The winners will be given the trophy at AsKQAnce 2024, which will be held in June 2024.
We thank all our quiz setters, proctors, and fellow quizzing organisations for making this edition a success.
We’ll see you again in December 2024.
| # | Name | Score | * | ** | City | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jayakanthan | 112 | 6 | 2 | Chennai | Open |
| 2 | Vinoo Sanjay | 100 | 9 | 3 | Mumbai | Open |
| 3 | Rahul Kottalgi | 100 | 7 | 2 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 4 | Rajiv Rai | 97 | 8 | 2 | Chennai | Open |
| 5 | Suraj Menon | 96 | 8 | 2 | Mumbai | Open |
| 6 | Thejaswi Udupa | 94 | 6 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 7 | Rajagopal PS | 92 | 7 | 3 | Chennai | Open |
| 8 | Santosh JS | 92 | 5 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 9 | Amrit Pritom Chetia | 91 | 0 | 0 | Delhi | Open |
| 10 | Hrishikesh Varma | 89 | 6 | 2 | Mumbai | Open |
| 11 | Manu Sudhakar | 89 | 6 | 2 | Thrissur | Open |
| 12 | Achyuth Sanjay | 88 | 7 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 13 | Dinesh Krithivasan | 88 | 6 | 1 | Chennai | Open |
| 14 | Prithwish Datta | 88 | 3 | 3 | Mumbai | Open |
| 15 | Gokul S | 88 | 0 | 0 | Delhi | Open |
| 16 | Calvin | 86 | 0 | 0 | Delhi | Open |
| 17 | Anustup Datta | 83 | 6 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 18 | Sourjo Sengupta | 82 | 7 | 1 | Kolkata (JIMS) | Open |
| 19 | Shaswat Salgaocar | 82 | 6 | 1 | Mumbai | Open |
| 20 | VR | 81 | 7 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 21 | Mario F | 80 | 7 | 2 | Chennai | Open |
| 22 | Abhinav Dasgupta | 79 | 6 | 3 | Mumbai | Open |
| 23 | Jayashree Mohanka | 79 | 3 | 3 | Kolkata | Ladies |
| 24 | Kunal Sawardekar | 78 | 6 | 1 | Pune | Open |
| 25 | Chandrakant Nair | 77 | 6 | 1 | Thrissur | Open |
| 26 | Krishnamurthi G (Goach) | 77 | 4 | 2 | Chennai | Open |
| 27 | Govind Grewal | 75 | 7 | 1 | Mumbai | Open |
| 28 | Shouvik Guha | 75 | 6 | 4 | Kolkata | Open |
| 29 | Arul Mani | 75 | 4 | 2 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 30 | Samanway Banerjee | 74 | 3 | 2 | Kolkata (JIMS) | Open |
| 31 | Kiran V | 73 | 6 | 0 | Chennai | Open |
| 32 | Anush Iyer | 72 | 6 | 0 | Mumbai | Open |
| 33 | Abdul Raouf | 72 | 2 | 0 | Kozhikode | Open |
| 34 | Piyush Kedia | 71 | 4 | 1 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 35 | Sania Narulkar | 71 | 2 | 1 | Mumbai | Ladies |
| 36 | J Ramanand | 70 | 4 | 0 | Pune | Open |
| 37 | Rohit S | 69 | 5 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 38 | Sandipan Goswami | 69 | 3 | 1 | Guwahati | Open |
| 39 | J Krishnamurthi | 68 | 4 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 40 | Jaidev Karunakaran | 68 | 3 | 2 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 41 | Sreekanth R P | 66 | 2 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 42 | Baibaswata Jena | 66 | 0 | 0 | Delhi | Open |
| 43 | Sangeeth | 65 | 5 | 0 | Thiruvananthapuram | Open |
| 44 | Karthik S | 65 | 4 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 45 | Vibhendu | 63 | 4 | 0 | Mumbai | Open |
| 46 | Roshith Mohan | 63 | 1 | 0 | Thrissur | Open |
| 47 | Dibyo Halder | 62 | 3 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 48 | Vilas Pavithran | 61 | 2 | 1 | Goa | Open |
| 49 | Mustafa | 60 | 5 | 1 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 50 | Venky Srinivasan | 60 | 5 | 0 | Mumbai | Open |
| 51 | Ashvini R Natu | 60 | 3 | 1 | Mumbai | Ladies |
| 52 | Maitrey D | 59 | 3 | 2 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 53 | Rajiv D'Silva | 59 | 3 | 0 | Goa | Open |
| 54 | Abid Abdulla | 59 | 3 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 55 | Bedbyas Dutta | 58 | 4 | 1 | Kolkata | Open |
| 56 | Siddhanth Rao | 58 | 2 | 1 | Chennai | Open |
| 57 | Shankha Ghosh Dastidar | 57 | 4 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 58 | Shamsuddin Haider | 56 | 5 | 1 | Kolkata (JIMS) | Open |
| 59 | R Samyak | 56 | 3 | 2 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 60 | Anannya Deb | 55 | 2 | 1 | Mumbai | Open |
| 61 | Jithin Jacob | 54 | 5 | 2 | Thiruvananthapuram | Open |
| 62 | Zaman S Khan | 54 | 3 | 2 | Thiruvananthapuram | Open |
| 63 | Annway Ghosh | 54 | 3 | 0 | Pune | College |
| 64 | Subhadeep Sarkar | 54 | 3 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 65 | Murty MVR | 54 | 3 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 66 | Arun Ramanathan | 53 | 4 | 1 | Chennai | Open |
| 67 | Sriram Padmanabhan | 53 | 3 | 0 | Pune | Open |
| 68 | Shrey Shylesh | 53 | 2 | 0 | Ahmedabad | Open |
| 69 | Vijay Sarathy | 53 | 2 | 0 | Chennai | Open |
| 70 | Somasish Ghosh | 53 | 0 | 0 | Delhi | Open |
| 71 | Muhammed Munavvir VV | 53 | 0 | 0 | Delhi | Open |
| 72 | Abhay Vikram | 53 | 0 | 0 | Delhi | Open |
| 73 | Alagarsamy | 52 | 4 | 2 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 74 | Anil Kothuri | 52 | 4 | 0 | Mumbai | Open |
| 75 | Kunal Savarkar | 52 | 2 | 2 | Mumbai | Open |
| 76 | Srihari Raju | 52 | 2 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 77 | Sanat Pai Raikar | 51 | 3 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 78 | Gautam Ghosh | 50 | 5 | 2 | Kolkata | Open |
| 79 | Abhilash | 50 | 2 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 80 | Dr. V Sri Nagesh | 49 | 3 | 1 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 81 | Kavya Ramasubramanian | 49 | 2 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 82 | Prasanth John Abraham | 49 | 2 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 83 | Arun A S | 48 | 4 | 0 | Thrissur | Open |
| 84 | Kunal Roy | 48 | 4 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 85 | J K Lakshmi | 48 | 3 | 1 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 86 | Saransh Mohapatra | 48 | 2 | 1 | Kolkata (JIMS) | Open |
| 87 | Vinod Hariharan | 47 | 5 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 88 | Sujay | 47 | 1 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 89 | Saswata Acharya | 46 | 3 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | Open |
| 90 | Siddharth Mishra | 46 | 3 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 91 | Siddharth K | 46 | 1 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 92 | Sumeer Kumar | 45 | 5 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 93 | Prithwiraj Mukherjee | 45 | 4 | 1 | Ahmedabad | Open |
| 94 | Balu John | 45 | 1 | 1 | Thiruvananthapuram | Open |
| 95 | Sarvesh Shenoy | 45 | 1 | 0 | Mumbai | Open |
| 96 | Santonab Chakraborty | 44 | 3 | 1 | Mumbai | Open |
| 97 | Sushant Shekhar | 44 | 3 | 0 | Manipal | College |
| 98 | Atul Mathew | 44 | 3 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 99 | Varun Parthasarathy | 44 | 1 | 1 | Chennai | Open |
| 100 | Mukilan Ayapparaj | 43 | 3 | 0 | Coimbatore | Open |
| 101 | Shobhyam Chakravarty | 42 | 3 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 102 | Ayush Agrawal | 41 | 1 | 0 | Pune | Open |
| 103 | Rajat Gururaj | 41 | 1 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 104 | Shayak Chakraborty | 41 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata | Open |
| 105 | Anisha Karnail | 40 | 1 | 1 | Pune | Ladies |
| 106 | Sudip Kalyan Dey | 40 | 1 | 0 | Kolkata | Open |
| 107 | Adarsh | 39 | 2 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 108 | Venkatasubramanian TC | 39 | 2 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 109 | Sujith E | 39 | 1 | 2 | Kozhikode | Open |
| 110 | Viswas Viswam K C | 37 | 3 | 1 | Kozhikode | Open |
| 111 | Sagnik Chakraborty | 37 | 3 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 112 | Francis Rodrigues | 37 | 2 | 0 | Mumbai | Open |
| 113 | Ishaan Najeeb | 37 | 1 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 114 | Samir Gupta | 37 | 0 | 1 | Pune | Open |
| 115 | Rama Subramanian | 36 | 2 | 1 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 116 | Rajesh Panchanadhan | 35 | 3 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 117 | Chandrashekhar Rao | 35 | 2 | 0 | Goa | Open |
| 118 | Mudit Bhardwaj | 34 | 3 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 119 | Meghana Iyengar | 34 | 2 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 120 | Sahil Ramchandani | 34 | 2 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 121 | Rishav Dewan | 34 | 2 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 122 | Viola Rodrigues | 34 | 0 | 1 | Goa | Ladies |
| 123 | Sreejesh PS | 33 | 3 | 0 | Thiruvananthapuram | Open |
| 124 | Monoswini Misra | 33 | 2 | 0 | Silchar | College |
| 125 | Tony Nixon Mavely | 33 | 2 | 0 | Thiruvananthapuram | College |
| 126 | Saee Joshi | 33 | 1 | 0 | Pune | Open |
| 127 | Shubham Jha | 33 | 0 | 0 | Pune | Open |
| 128 | Jitaditya Narzary | 32 | 2 | 1 | Guwahati | Open |
| 129 | Devarshi Ghosh | 32 | 2 | 0 | Kolkata | Open |
| 130 | Shiladitya Ganguli | 32 | 2 | 0 | Kolkata | Open |
| 131 | Bishanka Dassarma | 32 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | Open |
| 132 | Ganesh Thambhahalli Satyen | 31 | 3 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 133 | Ashutosh Das | 31 | 2 | 1 | Guwahati | Open |
| 134 | Ayush Sharma | 31 | 2 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 135 | Vivek Pinto | 31 | 1 | 1 | Manipal | Open |
| 136 | Rahul Preman | 31 | 1 | 0 | Kozhikode | College |
| 137 | Nikhil Jha | 31 | 1 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 138 | S Ramesh | 31 | 1 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 139 | Shom Biswas | 31 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 140 | Dimpal Dutta | 31 | 0 | 0 | Silchar | College |
| 141 | Sankar Roy | 30 | 3 | 0 | Kolkata | Open |
| 142 | Elvis Francis | 30 | 2 | 0 | Pune | College |
| 143 | Sreeram M | 30 | 2 | 0 | Kozhikode | College |
| 144 | Pranava | 30 | 1 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 145 | Nayan | 30 | 0 | 1 | Guwahati | Open |
| 146 | Srijon Jana | 29 | 2 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 147 | Kaivalya Karkare | 29 | 2 | 0 | Goa | Open |
| 148 | Prajwal V | 29 | 2 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 149 | Utkarsh Ruhela | 29 | 1 | 0 | Mumbai | Open |
| 150 | Abhijith Bhadran | 29 | 0 | 0 | Mumbai | Open |
| 151 | Anuradha Dharwadkar | 29 | 0 | 0 | Ahmedabad | Ladies |
| 152 | N Viswanathan | 29 | 0 | 0 | Udaipur | Open |
| 153 | Akshay P | 28 | 2 | 0 | Pune | Open |
| 154 | Athul Ajay | 28 | 2 | 0 | Thiruvananthapuram | Open |
| 155 | Roshan | 28 | 1 | 0 | Coimbatore | Open |
| 156 | Manoj R | 28 | 1 | 0 | Kozhikode | Open |
| 157 | Sundar Srinivas Harish | 28 | 1 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 158 | Abhishek Gupta | 28 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 159 | Sriniketh B | 27 | 2 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 160 | Abhijit Anand | 27 | 0 | 1 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 161 | Imthiaz Ahammed | 27 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode | Open |
| 162 | Soumya S | 27 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | Ladies |
| 163 | Aniruddha Mondal | 26 | 4 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 164 | Jerry Jose | 26 | 2 | 0 | Thrissur | College |
| 165 | Revanth Turlapati | 26 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 166 | Rana Mayank Pratap | 25 | 1 | 0 | Silchar | College |
| 167 | Shreyas Iyer | 25 | 1 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 168 | Vinay Nair Karath | 25 | 1 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 169 | Izhar Ansari | 25 | 0 | 1 | Kolkata (JIMS) | Open |
| 170 | Paul B E Gatward | 25 | 0 | 0 | Goa | Open |
| 171 | Pinakpani Kashyap | 24 | 2 | 0 | Guwahati | Open |
| 172 | Sanveer Singh Puri | 24 | 1 | 0 | Ahmedabad | Open |
| 173 | Sumanth Jayaramaiah | 24 | 1 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 174 | Praveen Jayaraj A | 24 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore | Open |
| 175 | Amit C J | 24 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 176 | Neelam Goswami | 24 | 0 | 0 | Guwahati | Ladies |
| 177 | S V Roshini | 23 | 3 | 0 | Chennai | College |
| 178 | Aravind S N | 23 | 2 | 0 | Chennai | College |
| 179 | Manu Varma | 23 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode | Open |
| 180 | Arnav Patel | 23 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 181 | Vibhu Prakash | 23 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 182 | S V Ananthakrishna | 23 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 183 | Pavan Madhukar Bhat | 22 | 1 | 0 | Manipal | Open |
| 184 | Samyukta Anand | 22 | 1 | 0 | Coimbatore | College |
| 185 | Arjun Jeewan | 22 | 0 | 0 | Goa | College |
| 186 | Preetpal | 22 | 0 | 0 | Udaipur | Open |
| 187 | Arnav Metrani | 21 | 4 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 188 | S T Prasad | 21 | 1 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 189 | Aumkaar Pranav Shukla | 21 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 190 | Syed Mohammad Hashmi | 20 | 2 | 0 | Hyderabad | College |
| 191 | Aditya Pal | 20 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 192 | Swethaa | 20 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | Ladies |
| 193 | Kiran Ramaswamy | 20 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 194 | Kevin | 20 | 0 | 0 | Udaipur | Open |
| 195 | Aravind Suresh | 19 | 2 | 0 | Thiruvananthapuram | College |
| 196 | Nikhil Shirsat | 19 | 1 | 0 | Goa | Open |
| 197 | Bhargav Sadari | 19 | 0 | 0 | Manipal | College |
| 198 | Ram Mohan | 19 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 199 | Vatsal | 19 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 200 | Asif Ahmed | 19 | 0 | 0 | Guwahati | Open |
| 201 | Harshad | 18 | 1 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 202 | Parijat Choudhury | 17 | 1 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 203 | Subikash Paul | 17 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata | Open |
| 204 | Manad | 17 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 205 | Kanishkaa Balachandran | 17 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 206 | Aoditya | 17 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 207 | Sukrit Sivaprasad | 17 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | School |
| 208 | Sankalp Chowdhury | 16 | 1 | 0 | Ahmedabad | Open |
| 209 | Jayagopalan V | 16 | 1 | 0 | Chennai | Open |
| 210 | Aaditya S Rao | 16 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 211 | Priyanuj Parasar | 15 | 1 | 2 | Guwahati | College |
| 212 | Vrinda Varma | 15 | 1 | 0 | Kozhikode | Ladies |
| 213 | Amit Agrawal | 15 | 0 | 0 | Pune | Open |
| 214 | Debabrata Malik | 15 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 215 | Aatir Zaki | 14 | 1 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 216 | Swagat Shubakanta Das | 14 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 217 | Meghna Sudhir | 13 | 1 | 0 | Kozhikode | School |
| 218 | Samyak Jain | 13 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 219 | Tejas Lodaya | 13 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 220 | Niyati Jois | 13 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | School |
| 221 | S Joshua | 12 | 1 | 0 | Coimbatore | College |
| 222 | Prayag Mohanty | 12 | 0 | 0 | Goa | College |
| 223 | Kamal Mehdi | 12 | 0 | 0 | Guwahati | Open |
| 224 | Sagufta | 12 | 0 | 0 | Udaipur | Open |
| 225 | Pranshu Singh | 11 | 1 | 0 | Mumbai | Open |
| 226 | Rayshma R | 11 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore | Ladies |
| 227 | Jash Sirui | 11 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 228 | Vineet | 11 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 229 | Anoop N Nambudari | 10 | 0 | 0 | Thrissur | Open |
| 230 | Atharva Pandare | 10 | 0 | 0 | Manipal | Open |
| 231 | Bhavya H Varma | 9 | 1 | 0 | Ahmedabad | College |
| 232 | Sreeram N Pai | 9 | 1 | 0 | Kozhikode | College |
| 233 | Vishwanath Varma | 9 | 1 | 0 | Kozhikode | School |
| 234 | Jayant Rankwa | 9 | 0 | 1 | Ahmedabad | College |
| 235 | Alok Vijay Saldanha | 9 | 0 | 0 | Manipal | Open |
| 236 | Rohit R K | 9 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore | College |
| 237 | Riddhi Mondal | 9 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | Ladies |
| 238 | Varun Ramachandran | 9 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 239 | Saumay | 9 | 0 | 0 | Udaipur | Open |
| 240 | Nikhil A Khattar | 8 | 1 | 0 | Ahmedabad | Open |
| 241 | Kabilesh Nataraj | 8 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore | College |
| 242 | Pankaj Waghmare | 8 | 0 | 0 | Pune | Open |
| 243 | Vijeet V | 8 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | Open |
| 244 | Vigenshwaran A | 7 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore | College |
| 245 | Bijili V Komath | 7 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode | Ladies |
| 246 | Nilova Jasu | 7 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | Ladies |
| 247 | Khevan Thanki | 7 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 248 | Harishkumar A | 6 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore | College |
| 249 | Ridah P | 6 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode | Ladies |
| 250 | Sounak Bhawal | 6 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 251 | Uddipana N | 6 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | College |
| 252 | Hemant | 6 | 0 | 0 | Udaipur | Open |
| 253 | Gowtham V | 5 | 0 | 0 | Manipal | College |
| 254 | Nancy R | 5 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode | College |
| 255 | Dhruv | 5 | 0 | 0 | Udaipur | Open |
| 256 | Siddharth S | 4 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode | School |
| 257 | Raza Faiz Arakkal | 4 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode | School |
| 258 | U Kanishkar | 4 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 259 | Harshil Agarwal | 4 | 0 | 0 | Kolkata (JIMS) | College |
| 260 | Shivansh Srivastava | 3 | 0 | 0 | Ahmedabad | College |
| 261 | Mohamad Asik | 3 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore | College |
| 262 | Divyansh Agarwal | 3 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 263 | Tanvi | 3 | 0 | 0 | Udaipur | Open |
| 264 | Ashok Kumar Gupta | 2 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 265 | Rohit J S | 1 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore | College |
| 266 | Hariharan P | 1 | 0 | 0 | Coimbatore | College |
| 267 | Ayisha Farsana P P | 1 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode | College |
| 268 | Uzayr Faiz Arakkal | 1 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode | School |
| 269 | Edsel Shannen D'Souza | 0 | 0 | 0 | Manipal | College |
| 270 | Ahil Anwar P | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode | School |
| 271 | Aseel Muhammed P | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kozhikode | School |
| 272 | Saamved Chakraborty | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad | School |
| 273 | Dhananjoy Chakraborty | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hyderabad | Open |
| 274 | Abheri Karthik | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bengaluru | School |
VENUES – MQ and AS 2023
The list of venues for the 2023 editions of Mahaquizzer and AsiaSweep are listed below.
If there is any error or you would like to add your city to the list of venues, please contact kqaquizzes@gmail.com.
We have no venues in Jamshedpur,Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram.
| City | Venue | Hosting | Contact | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmedabad | IIM, Ahmedabad (New Campus) | MQ, AS | Kushan Patel | 88492 09809 |
| Bengaluru | Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Head Office in Koramangala (Grape Garden address on Google maps) | MQ, AS | Maitrey Deshpande | 97428 33686 |
| Chennai | PS Senior Secondary School, Mylapore, Chennai 600 004 | MQ, AS | Rajagopal PS | 98800 61309 |
| Coimbatore | LH-01, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Saravanampatti, Coimbatore-641049 | MQ, AS | Santhiya Krishnamoorthy | 8870829385 |
| Delhi | LH313.3, Lecture Hall Complex, IIT Delhi | MQ, AS | Shubhankar Bahl | 9910038334 |
| Goa | Goa Business School, Taleigao Plateau. | MQ, AS | Rajiv D'Silva | 98901 41715 |
| Guwahati | Aurus Mall Food Court | MQ, AS | Akshay Seal | 8860774325 |
| Hyderabad | Columbus hospital, Begumpet -- top floor conference room. | MQ, AS | Prasanna Karmakar | 90008 77436 |
| Kolkata | The Institute of Marine Engineers (India), Kolkata Branch, Flat A-1/2, 1st Floor, Siddhartha Apartments, 31/3 Sahapur Colony, Block J, New Alipore | MQ, AS | Abijit Banerjee | 9830487023 |
| Kolkata (JIMS) | JIMS Hospital and Medical College, KP Mondal Road, Buita, Budge Budge, Kolkata | ONLY MAHAQUIZZER | Ujan Sen | 90510 22364 |
| Kozhikode | Govt Arts and Science College | MQ, AS | Praveen | 85476 68852 |
| Manipal | KMC Manipal | MQ, AS | Sanjay | 9880197605 |
| Mumbai | Rajyog Family Restaurant & Bar | MQ, AS | Abhinav Dasgupta | 98195 79559 |
| Pune | Goethe Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan, Pune. | ONLY MAHAQUIZZER | Pranav Pawar | 94212 77399 |
| Raiganj | Hall room of Banijya Bhawan, Mohonbati, Raiganj | MQ, AS | Debabrata Das | 9832422988 |
| Silchar | Silchar Medical College and Hospital | MQ, AS | Shubhamoy Chanda | 7002139471 |
| Siliguri | Siliguri Girls High School, Siliguri | ONLY MAHAQUIZZER | Pratyush Kundu | 75860 93596 |
| Thrissur | Academic Block, Room #24, St.Thomas College | MQ, AS | Dr Vijaynath | 94473 80969 |
| Udaipur | IIM Udaipur | MQ, AS | Ruzul | 9049101133 |
MahaMahaQuizzer and MegaWhats Finals 2023
The finals of MahaMahaQuizzer 2023 will take place at 10 am on 30 June, the first day of Askqance 2023. The participants are listed below.
- Sachin Deshpande
- Jayakanthan (Chennai)
- Rahul Kottalgi (Bangalore)
- Santosh JS (Bangalore)
- Thejaswi Udupa (Bangalore)
- Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka (Kolkata)
- Keshava Guha (Delhi)
- Amrit P C (Delhi)
- Nikhil Sonde (Mumbai)
- Rajiv Rai (Mumbai)
- Praveen VR (Bangalore)
- Manu Sudhakar (Kochi)
- Dinesh Krithivasan (Chennai)
- Chandrakant Nair (Thrissur)
- Sourjo Sengupta (Kolkata)
- Abhinav Dasgupta (Mumbai)
The semifinals of MegaWhats 2023 will take place on the first day of Askqance 2023. The teams for each semifinal are listed below.
Semifinal 1 @ 230pm
1. ZeF
2. Zero Gravitas
3. Hammer and tongs
4. Feni vidi vici
5. String quartet
6. QA, Bangalore
7. CIDs
8. Nexus
Semifinal 2 @ 345pm
1. Adutha Varsham
2. Matunga Manram
3. Aardvarks
4. In search of lost prime
5. QED
6. QA, Chennai
7. BMQJ
8. Peter Panchali
VENUES – MindSweep and MegaWhats 2023
These are the confirmed venues for MindSweep and MegaWhats 2023
NOTE: There is no venue in Kozhikode.
| # | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ahmedabad | Ahmedabad University |
| 2 | Bengaluru | Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen's Road |
| 3 | Chennai | PS Senior Secondary School, Mylapore |
| 4 | Coimbatore | PSG Institute of Management, Coimbatore |
| 5 | Goa | Goa Business School, Taleigao Plateau. |
| 6 | Guwahati | Assam Engineering College |
| 7 | Hyderabad | Columbus Hospital, 1-10-63/4/1,Prakash Nagar Metro Station, Chikoti Gardens (Begumpet) Hyderabad |
| 8 | Kochi | 2nd Floor, Ashis Building, Above Ashwas Counseling Centre, Alphonsa Street, Marine Drive, High Court Jn, Kochi |
| 9 | Kolkata | The Institute of Marine Engineers (India), Kolkata Branch, Flat A-1/2, 1st Floor, Siddhartha Apartments, 31/3 Sahapur Colony, Block J, New Alipore, Kolkata 700 053. |
| 10 | Mangalore | Conference hall, Vinaya hospital, Pintos lane, Kadri, Mangalore |
| 11 | Mumbai | Rajyog Family Restaurant & Bar |
| 12 | New Delhi | The Print Shop https://maps.app.goo.gl/xJkPhMtnxNqdFChw9 A29 Naraina Industrial Area, Phase 2, New Delhi 110027 Near Shadipur Metro Station (Blue line) |
| 13 | Pune | Seminar Hall 1, Ground Floor, Instrumentation Building, COEP |
| 14 | Silchar | New Gallery classroom complex, NIT Silchar |
| 15 | Tezpur | Tezpur University |
| 16 | Thiruvananthapuram | College of Engineering Trivandrum |
| 17 | Thiruvananthapuram-IISER | IISER |
| 18 | Thrissur | Jose Lecture Hall, Government Medical College, Thrissur. |
Open quizzes on March 8th 2020
The Karnataka Quiz Association will be conducting two quizzes on 8th March (Sunday) at the Ujjivan head office in Koramangala.
11:00 am — Ads Astra – The Advertising Quiz, by Sai and Urmila. A quiz on ads, advertising industry and people from the advertising world. Special focus on women as the quiz is on March 8. It is a written quiz for teams of up to two. Open to all.
2:30pm — The Nexus Open Quiz This will be the 3rd edition of the general quiz conducted by Nexus Consulting. Cash prizes of Rs. 16,000 generously sponsored by Nexus Consulting. There are prizes for best school and college teams as well (mixed teams allowed – no requirement of all team members to be from same school/college). Come by for some #funwithfundas
It is a prelims/finals quiz for teams of up to four. Open to all.
Venue: Ujjivan head office, Koramangala [map]
You can also get the latest updates on the KQA by following us at www.facebook.com/kqaquizzes or www.instagram.com/kqaquizzes
If you know of anyone who would like to be a part of the KQA Quiz Announcements WhatsApp group, please have them send a WhatsApp message to +91 9902444486
Open Quizzes — February 16th, 2020
The Karnataka Quiz Association will be conducting two quizzes on Sunday, 16th February 2020 at the Ujjivan head office in Koramangala. [map]
11:00 am: Rosa is a Rosé is a Reisen is a Rose – the Etymology and Languages Quiz, by Debashree and Krittika. A quiz on words, in words! If you’re adamant about your answers you may come up with diamonds. It is a written quiz for teams of up to two. Open to all.
2:30 pm: The February Open Quiz by Priyambad and JK. The Open this month is by two great QMs from the greater Bangalore area (Electronic City and Chennai, respectively). It is a prelims/finals quiz for teams of up to four. Open to all.
You can also get the latest updates on the KQA by following us at www.facebook.com/kqaquizzes or www.instagram.com/kqaquizzes
If you know of anyone who would like to be a part of the KQA Quiz Announcements WhatsApp group, please have them send a WhatsApp message to +91 9902444486
Quiz Night at The Courtyard — 11th February, 2020
Join us for edition 14 of Quiz Night at The Courtyard on February 11th (Tuesday) at 8:00 PM.
Ring in Valentine’s Day…eve’s… eve’s… eve – more Valentine’s Day-ish than Valentine’s Daesh – with Love Me Thanda by Thejaswi Udupa and Aditi Surendra, a quiz on love in all its forms and deformities. Love may be all you need, but a teammate wouldn’t hurt either.
A quiz for teams of two. The quiz is open to all
When: 8:00 PM on February 11 (Tuesday), 2020
Venue: The Courtyard, K H Road [map]
Registration: ₹100/person. Prizes for top three finishers.
A prior reservation is not mandatory, but it would be helpful for the folks at the Courtyard to know that you’re coming (if you’re sure that you are coming) – reserve your table by calling them at 73386 77996 Limited parking at the venue.
Note on parking: Very limited parking available at the venue, so ideal to park either near St. Joseph’s college or at the Shantinagar Bus Stand parking lot and walk up.
KQA Sports Quiz Day – 2nd February 2020
Come to the Institute of Agricultural Technologists Sunday, 2nd February 2020 for a day of sports quizzing on shores made of jerseys, where you’re allowed concussion substitutes, the quizzers say it’s team of up to Fore! and the furniture is made of cardboard.
10:00 am: Well Of Course, the 10th edition of KQA’s cricket quiz, conducted by Manish, Sohan and Wisden Sreeram. It’s the end of an era, Manish is retiring! Boys played well, so let’s give him a rousing farewell… till he Afridis his decision.
It’s a prelims/finals quiz for teams of up to four. Open to all.
2:00 pm: Aiyyo, See – The Olympics Quiz by Rohit Suresh and Ramesh Natarajan. Toh Kyo…n serious?
This is a written quiz for teams of up to two. Open to all.
4:00 pm: Sport to Tarboard – The KQA Sports Quiz by Anuradha and Titash. Will contain sports. May contain cricket or Olympics. May even contain WWE.
It’s a prelims/finals quiz for teams of up to four. Open to all.
Venue: Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road [map]
KQA yearbooks will be available at the venue.
You can also get the latest updates on the KQA by following us at www.facebook.com/kqaquizzes or www.instagram.com/kqaquizzes
If you know of anyone who would like to be a part of the KQA Quiz Announcements WhatsApp group, please have them send a WhatsApp message to +91 9902444486
